I'm assuming this is some sort of exploit, or workaround for Firefox, that people have figured out, but I frequently get unwanted popups, mainly from bullshit sites like casalemedia and fastclick.
I'm trying to find some examples I can link to for this post, but go figure - when I need to show it, not there! Typically if you search for "[band] lyrics" - those lyrics sites have tons of popups.
Anyway, I'm sure most of you using Firefox know what I'm talking about.
Download their music/games, mod their consoles... that would be a start. That's what I do. I mean, I know it's not what people wanna hear, but it's much more effective at pissing them off and getting a reaction than "boycotting" could ever do. People would rather take a legal non-civil disobedient method, but sometimes you need to take matters into your own hands.
They're so quick to slip some software under the radar onto your computer and think nothing of it. If it was an average person, the FBI would be all over their ass. If Sony gets away with a similar crime, then so will you.
Let me ask you this, why waste your energy trying to boycott something if you KNOW it won't have an impact? That's like those chain letters going around urging people to not buy gas for a day/week because prices are so high in some odd attempt at screwing oil companies. It's not gonna happen. Most people are sheep and can care less - based on that alone you won't get anywhere.
If it makes you feel better personally to boycott, then have at it, but if you want ACTUAL results, that alone won't do it. What will? I don't know. The fact is, they're a multi-billion dollar international corporation, so feeble attempts at gathering the masses to not buy their products isn't gonna cut it. I don't know, perhaps if you were someone like Microsoft or Google (or another company with massive influence and a shitload of cash), you could probably make a stink and turn some heads.
You *could* boycott something like a local restaurant - yes, that will probably get you results if you get enough people doing it.
Sony? No. Microsoft? No. Government? No.
To me it sounds like some new laws need to be made, but unless you have enough cash to persuade your lawmakers to even think of such a thing, you're kinda SOL.
Till then... don't buy their stuff - download it instead.
Boycotts don't work with companies as large as Sony.
Even if you were lucky enough to gather a large amount of people, their producs are so intertwined with everyday technology that your actions won't make the slightest dent in their profits.
It might seem like a good idea on how to "stick it to the man", but in reality it's not quite so effective.
Even with all this bad publicity, they'll probably see a temporary dent in their stock, but 6 months from now all will be back to normal.
Well that's definitely a much better solution than the traditional workarounds, which I absolutely loathe.
See, I had looked at other whitepapers for 2005 and they never elaborated much on paging result sets! They simply had a sentence or two about row_number and had nothing else to say.
No, SQL Server lacks an efficient method for doing data paging.
I'm not saying it can't be done - I'm saying there needs to be a method so you aren't dicking around with nested statements in using a rather crappy workaround putting strain on the server where it doesn't need to be.
Other DB's have built in methods for solving this issue, why not SQL Server?
Has nothing to do with reading documentation - it has to do with implementing features to help developers.
Granted the row count column is better than nothing, but not nearly as good as it COULD have been.
Either your post is +1 Funny or +1 Troll if you had proper education; or, if you don't have proper education, there should be a -1 Uneducated moderation.
Or it could be modded +3 "It's an honest question pertaining to the topic, quit taking things so seriously."
Thanks for the link.
One thing that gets me about evolution is... let's take, for example, eyes...
Now the development of such a part generally (unless I'm misunderstanding something) happens from a freak genetic mutation. Now how did organisms begin to develop "sight" - obviously not having eyes yet - and eventually leading down to fully developed optical nerves and all that?
It's not like an organism was born and *poof* had a freakish new ability called sight - it had to develop slowly over millions of years.
Wings of a bird.. same thing. Before it actually had the developed wings, obviously it couldn't fly yet.
Obviously the whole "god" and Intelligent Design theories are more or less ignorant BS, but this is just one thing that really seems to be lacking in evolution.
It's hard to ask the question, but maybe you get what I'm tryin to say.
I wonder if DNA has some sort of... plan, or mind of its own.
No, the problem is that parents are letting these people overstep their boundaries.
Whatever happens at the school stays at the school. I don't care if it's a job, private school, or whatthefuckever.. anything you do on your OWN time is YOUR business, not theirs... especially blogging.
A school has no jurisdiction, private or public, to even THINK of saying anything otherwise. Just because they're private doesn't give them the right to seek out their students online and then make demands of them "or face suspension/expulson."
The parents of these students should be able to sue.
Then again, the parents should be slapped in the face for even considering sending their kids to a private catholic school in the first place..
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I splice loops from songs *I* want and I don't pay a single penny for it.
I laugh whenever I see anyone else download crap (esp midi) at $1.99 a pop.
Suckers.
All it takes is a little work w/ the API and you could pretty much make those ads disappear ;)
Free OS for all!
I'm assuming this is some sort of exploit, or workaround for Firefox, that people have figured out, but I frequently get unwanted popups, mainly from bullshit sites like casalemedia and fastclick.
I'm trying to find some examples I can link to for this post, but go figure - when I need to show it, not there! Typically if you search for "[band] lyrics" - those lyrics sites have tons of popups.
Anyway, I'm sure most of you using Firefox know what I'm talking about.
What's up with this?
Awww, someone didn't like what I had to say! /cry
;)
Don't get pissed off because you thought your lil boycott plan would work
*YOU* aren't going to buy a PS3.
There are millions of others who will.
They're also in many markets besides video games, such as movies, cell phones, etc. that your friends and family purchase.
Your decision to not buy a PS3 fulfills personal relief, but has no effect whatsoever in the overall problem of the company.
That's my point.
Download their music/games, mod their consoles... that would be a start. That's what I do. I mean, I know it's not what people wanna hear, but it's much more effective at pissing them off and getting a reaction than "boycotting" could ever do. People would rather take a legal non-civil disobedient method, but sometimes you need to take matters into your own hands.
They're so quick to slip some software under the radar onto your computer and think nothing of it. If it was an average person, the FBI would be all over their ass. If Sony gets away with a similar crime, then so will you.
Let me ask you this, why waste your energy trying to boycott something if you KNOW it won't have an impact? That's like those chain letters going around urging people to not buy gas for a day/week because prices are so high in some odd attempt at screwing oil companies. It's not gonna happen. Most people are sheep and can care less - based on that alone you won't get anywhere.
If it makes you feel better personally to boycott, then have at it, but if you want ACTUAL results, that alone won't do it. What will? I don't know. The fact is, they're a multi-billion dollar international corporation, so feeble attempts at gathering the masses to not buy their products isn't gonna cut it. I don't know, perhaps if you were someone like Microsoft or Google (or another company with massive influence and a shitload of cash), you could probably make a stink and turn some heads.
You *could* boycott something like a local restaurant - yes, that will probably get you results if you get enough people doing it.
Sony? No. Microsoft? No. Government? No.
To me it sounds like some new laws need to be made, but unless you have enough cash to persuade your lawmakers to even think of such a thing, you're kinda SOL.
Till then... don't buy their stuff - download it instead.
Boycotts don't work with companies as large as Sony.
Even if you were lucky enough to gather a large amount of people, their producs are so intertwined with everyday technology that your actions won't make the slightest dent in their profits.
It might seem like a good idea on how to "stick it to the man", but in reality it's not quite so effective.
Even with all this bad publicity, they'll probably see a temporary dent in their stock, but 6 months from now all will be back to normal.
Then the PS3 comes out, yadda yadda...
Won't work.
Unless they're willing to strip out the commericials, which is how they get paid in the first place, then I'll just stick to P2P.
You can't THWART A PIRATE'S PLANS.
What in the DOUBLE-YOU-TEE-EFF...
Ah sweet!
Well that's definitely a much better solution than the traditional workarounds, which I absolutely loathe.
See, I had looked at other whitepapers for 2005 and they never elaborated much on paging result sets! They simply had a sentence or two about row_number and had nothing else to say.
That link though - good stuff. Thanks!
No, SQL Server lacks an efficient method for doing data paging.
I'm not saying it can't be done - I'm saying there needs to be a method so you aren't dicking around with nested statements in using a rather crappy workaround putting strain on the server where it doesn't need to be.
Other DB's have built in methods for solving this issue, why not SQL Server?
Has nothing to do with reading documentation - it has to do with implementing features to help developers.
Granted the row count column is better than nothing, but not nearly as good as it COULD have been.
Either you misunderstood me or you have no experience with data paging.
A simple SELECT TOP won't do it as efficiently as it should be done - even with nested SELECT TOP statements.
It's a bad strain on the server, highly inefficient, especially if you're selecting from within millions of records.
MySQL's LIMIT does this just fine - SQL Server completely lacks any sensical method of data paging.
Seriously, what in the HELL is wrong with their developers?
The solution to their paging problem - an extra numeric column from 1 to whatever.
There needs to be a SELECT statement very similar to MySQLs LIMIT function. No fiddling with numbers BS - just give us the chunk of data we need.
Honest to god - the most BASIC things required in a DB and they can't even put it in there. It's 2005. How long have we had this problem now?
Ridiculous.
Either your post is +1 Funny or +1 Troll if you had proper education; or, if you don't have proper education, there should be a -1 Uneducated moderation. Or it could be modded +3 "It's an honest question pertaining to the topic, quit taking things so seriously." Thanks for the link.
One thing that gets me about evolution is... let's take, for example, eyes...
Now the development of such a part generally (unless I'm misunderstanding something) happens from a freak genetic mutation. Now how did organisms begin to develop "sight" - obviously not having eyes yet - and eventually leading down to fully developed optical nerves and all that?
It's not like an organism was born and *poof* had a freakish new ability called sight - it had to develop slowly over millions of years.
Wings of a bird.. same thing. Before it actually had the developed wings, obviously it couldn't fly yet.
Obviously the whole "god" and Intelligent Design theories are more or less ignorant BS, but this is just one thing that really seems to be lacking in evolution.
It's hard to ask the question, but maybe you get what I'm tryin to say.
I wonder if DNA has some sort of... plan, or mind of its own.
Yeah I just wanna give mad props to my registers for makin this thing HAPPEN
XMM0/MM0/EAX/AX/AL and
XMM1/MM1/ECX/CX/CL and
XMM2/MM2/EDX/DX/DL... I LOVE YOU GIRL...
and I can't forget
XMM3/MM3/EBX/BX/BL...
You are all wonderful, thank you again!
Er... shoot out?
WTF, that's all I've seen in the past few weeks.
"Rootkit".
It's not a fucking rootkit. Call it what you've always called it - spyware, or a trojan.
Why the flashy names?
Well, since you asked Slashdot, you'll get a Slashdot answer!
STFG (Search Teh Fucking Google), n00b.
If you visit sites or use programs that display this personal information in the TITLE BAR, then you are stupid.
Sounds like this guy is preying on people's ignorance of technology to get all eyes pointed to Blizzard.
I'd like to see the program/website that displays such confidential info right up there in the title bar...
Is there some machine they have that separates all the pages and scans each one?
How do they verify that the items being scanned are being scanned properly?
What kernel does this run on, 2.6.13?
3.8?
Teh.Deceased
That's what THAT means.
Why would you want to speak something other than American? Are you a terrorist?
No, the problem is that parents are letting these people overstep their boundaries.
Whatever happens at the school stays at the school. I don't care if it's a job, private school, or whatthefuckever.. anything you do on your OWN time is YOUR business, not theirs... especially blogging.
A school has no jurisdiction, private or public, to even THINK of saying anything otherwise. Just because they're private doesn't give them the right to seek out their students online and then make demands of them "or face suspension/expulson."
The parents of these students should be able to sue.
Then again, the parents should be slapped in the face for even considering sending their kids to a private catholic school in the first place..
Um yeah.. I didn't say anything about lawful. They aren't gonna catch you. Honestly, who cares?
Hire a clean, attractive lady to join the crew to fulfill their desires when the situation presents itself.
It's simple, really.